Workday Data Migration Consultant in Reading, Berkshire

Role/Job title:  Workday Data Migration Consultant

Work Location:  UK - Reading or Dublin

Mode of working:  Hybrid / 3 Days Required to WFO

Duration of assignment:  12 months

Our client, an international fast-fashion and lifestyle retailer is seeking an experienced Workday Data Migration Consultant to support a strategic customer engagement involving the migration of employee and payroll-related data from Workday to a new payroll platform. The ideal candidates will possess strong functional knowledge of Workday processes along with hands-on experience in data migration, data validation, and data transformation activities.

This is an urgent requirement supporting a time-sensitive customer project, and the selected resources will play a key role in ensuring a seamless transition with minimal business disruption.

Your responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand existing Workday data structures and business processes.
• Lead and support end-to-end data migration activities from Workday to a new payroll platform.
• Gather, extract, transform, cleanse, validate, and reconcile data throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, payroll teams, and technical teams to ensure data accuracy and completeness.
• Develop data mapping documents and migration strategies.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues and migration-related risks.
• Perform migration testing, validation, and post-migration support activities.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and privacy requirements.
• Support project timelines and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Proven experience (8+) working experience in Workday Data Migration and Workday Integration exposure.
• Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
• Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches.

• Strong experience working with Workday HCM and related business processes.
• Proven experience in data migration projects, preferably involving HR and payroll systems.
• Experience with data extraction, transformation, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
• Understanding of employee, organizational, payroll, and workforce data structures.
• Ability to analyze complex data sets and troubleshoot migration issues.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced project environment.
• Experience migrating data from Workday to payroll platforms or other HCM solutions.
• Knowledge of payroll processes and payroll data structures.
• Experience with Workday reporting, EIBs, integrations, or data conversion tools.
• Workday certification is an added advantage.

RThis is an excellent opportunity to work for a well-known international fast-fashion and lifestyle retailer. Forwared your CV to be considered for this role!